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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said he is well suited to the nature of political life. McCabe, 25, is a graduate of Stonehill College, and worked in 1994 on John R. Lakian's failed attempt against Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination for the seat held by U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: ON THE FAST food TRACK | 9/29/1995 | See Source »

Williams headed the ball off a Harvard corner kick from the right side, and B.U. goalie Bryan Murphy's attempt to redirect the shot over the net failed. Instead, the ball bounced off the crossbar and fell in front of the net waiting for a Harvard player to knock it in. Viders...

Author: By Maggie Jacobberger, | Title: Men's Soccer Avenges Tournament Loss Against B.U. | 9/28/1995 | See Source »

Hickman tries ever so hard to live up to the festival's title, "OUT on the Edge," and fails at every, attempt, Nudity, simulated sex and cross-dressing are paraded by the audience as if to prove that Hickman is truly at the outer limits of experimental theater. Somebody should tell him that it's all been done before, and far better...

Author: By Marc R. Talusan, | Title: Offensive Swings A Hit and a Strike | 9/28/1995 | See Source »

...attempt to make up for the politically incorrect messages in the film (act like a stereotypical 1950s lady and you will succeed in life, drag queens and other gay people are Martians, etc.), the movie is peppered with overt political correctness. Because the trio are presented as asexual, the word "gay" is shoehorned into their lines to appease those ticket-buying gays who might want the movie to be more "out." The homophobic cop is a racist, bumbling fool. The wife-beater is evil and even teams up with the cop. (Of course a man in a dress beating...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: 'To Wong Foo' Not Worthy of 'Priscilla's' Old Pantyhose | 9/28/1995 | See Source »

...Medical School was wrong to have convened this fact-finding committee in the first place. It was wrong, in light of what has been made public so far, to have reprimanded Mack at all. It was wrong to have leaked information to the media in an obvious attempt at smearing Mack...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Mack Deserves No Flak | 9/27/1995 | See Source »

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